On Jun 15, 9:31, Jules Richardson wrote:
> It'd be nice to have a Prestel server at Bletchley with some assorted
> 80's machines hooked up to it (bodging the phone network inbetween :)
> but chances are that nobody's got a copy of the necessary server
> software any more :-(
If only for local use, a small PBX or a few line emulators would do.
> Even if they did have the server software, I can't see them having a
> snapshot of live data from the 80's which is what would make it
really
> interesting. I don't really fancy writing a few hundred fake pages
:-)
You might be able to get some pages from peopel who used to run BBC
BBSs. Or people Rob and I know might have some dusty archives.
> I've heard mention of some sort of viewdata server system there (not
> Prestel), although I haven't personally stumbled across it in storage
> yet (no room currently to have it on display!). PDP hardware IIRC.
Some of the commercial systems did indeed use the ubiquitous PDP-11,
but the real thing ran on GEC hardware.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Tue Jun 15 2004 - 12:46:14 BST